Described by its maker as "a pulsating film essay on HUMAN SENSUALITY," Sweet Movie, Makavejev's first work produced entirely outside of Yugoslavia, proved to be even more controversial a film than WR; its American premiere at Wheeler Auditorium remains memorable and the refrain of its theme song (written by Makavejev), "Is there life after birth?", still rings with captivating paradox. Makavejev's anti-heroine, Miss World 1984, travels with a rich Canadian called Mr. Kapital, while the proletarian Capt. Anna Planeta, skipper of the barge Survival, finds happiness in a bed of sugar with the Sailor from the Potemkin....But why talk plot? In the film's most extreme illustration of the joys of personal catharsis and organic communalism, Miss World finds a group therapy collective whose members engage in various regressive behaviors from twirling feces on a platter to bathing in chocolate. Marsha Kinder wrote in Film Quarterly, "The values have been reversed: showing your shit seems preferable to being sugarcoated....We are trained by our culture to like sugar coating, which makes us more susceptible to political manipulation....Anything sweet is bound to be dangerous, even this funny anarchistic movie."